On Nov. 1, 1938, in a two-horse match, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths in what was dubbed the “Race of the Century” at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

2012-12-08T20:01:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/5a2/307860-m.jpgUniversity of Missouri history professor John Bullion spoke to students about the debt ...

The opening salvo of the American Revolution was fired Nov. 1, 1765, a decade before the battles in Lexington and Concord in 1775. The initial shot was not musket or cannon balls, but a tax levied by ...

Anger flowed through the streets of Lewes in 1765. Two years earlier, Great Britain and the American colonies had won the French and Indian War, but the cost of victory was high. The war left the ...

There are uncanny parallels between colonial protests against the Stamp Act and last week's website blackouts protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. Last week's protests against two bills aiming to ...

Rioting has been an American pastime since before America existed, and it’s heartening to see patriotic Seattlites participating in a tradition that dates back to before the country’s founding. In ...

Under the guidance of Lord Grenville, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765. This was the first direct tax on the American colonies and was intended to reduce the debt that Great ...

This week, Scott and Aaron remember a mock funeral for "liberty" that Wilmingtonians staged in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act.

In last week's puzzle, host Liane Hansen confused the Stamp Act with the tax on tea. She talks with historian David Hackett Fischer, who explains the origins of the British-imposed taxes on the ...

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